Colasoft Capsa vs. Opsview Monitor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Colasoft Capsa
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Colasoft Capsa is a network performance monitoring and protocol analyzing tool. Capsa provides core monitoring features, as well as automated diagnostics and packet decoding. Colasoft offers a limited free version of the software.N/A
Opsview Monitor
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Opsview Monitor is an IT infrastructure and application monitoring solution. It monitors the infrastructure, applications, and endpoints of a network, and supports add-ons for automation and data exporting. Opsview also offers a free version of Monitor.N/A
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Colasoft CapsaOpsview Monitor
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Colasoft CapsaOpsview Monitor
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Colasoft CapsaOpsview Monitor
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Colasoft CapsaOpsview Monitor
Small Businesses
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Colasoft CapsaOpsview Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Colasoft CapsaOpsview Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
Colasoft
Capsa is highly recommended to be used in small dense areas of a network where it makes sense to be able to run analytics off of a mirror port to gain insight into traffic trends. It is a costly product to install in branch locations, and requires a decent spec hardware to run appropriately
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Opsview
If you know Nagios or Nagios-like monitoring systems, OpsView will be really easy for you to learn and manage. Migrations process will be relatively easy. You're getting great U/I that will speed up adding new objects to the system and present data in a clear, organized way. In addition it's easy to create dedicated dashboards for your clients.
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Pros
Colasoft
  • Robust Application. Able to handle traffic that most businesses will throw at it.
  • Easy to use. Easy to setup captures and filter down to specific traffic types.
  • Relatively cheap for what it's able to accomplish.
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Opsview
  • Easily extensible. We write many of our own monitoring plugins for Opsview and use open source Nagios community plugins as well
  • Quick to deploy. Don't need to worry about all of the dependencies that you need to with something like Nagios
  • It just works. Most of the housekeeping tasks are completely automated
  • Nice visualizations and dashboards
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Cons
Colasoft
  • Needs options to scale to 10Gb/s networks. The cutoff for performance looks to be around 3Gb/sl
  • Needs API access to trigger capturesl
  • Needs Agents for remote capturesl
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Opsview
  • pricey
  • build in cloud monitoring packs need to be improved
  • smb version is missing some powerfull features
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Alternatives Considered
Colasoft
Colasoft performs more like the traditional wireshark as opposed to other solutions that tend to focus on graphs instead of giving you the raw data. I personally prefer the raw data, and then the ability to build graphs upon this (which Capsa can do). This allows for quicker analysis and makes it easier to relate to.
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Opsview
Nagios and Zabbix - Opsview is much easier to setup and operate than both of them. SolarWinds Orion - Opsview is much more economical
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Return on Investment
Colasoft
  • While the product doesn't detect malware, it has helped track down malware infected machines by using data from other applications to run filters to look for known traffic destinations for that malware. For me this is a huge ROI since malware can be the great unknown.
  • Relatively cheap compared to the feature set.
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Opsview
  • helps to discover and remediate infrastructure problems quickly
  • helps to present SLA diagrams for clients
  • speeds up deployment proces for new solutions
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